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Section 6 Newton's Third Law of Motion-Action Reaction Vocab
Vocabulary Section 6 Newton's Third Law of Motion-Action Reaction
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Physics
11th Grade
08/13/2011
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action force
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One of the pair of forces described in Newton's third law
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interaction
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A mutual action between objects where each object exerts an equal and opposite force on the other
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Newton's third law
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Whenever one body exerts a force on a second body, the second body exerts an equal and opposite force on the first.
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reaction force
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The force that is equal in strength and opposite in direction to the action force, whidh acts simultaneously on whatever is exerting the action force
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